Access to health service by brazilian emigrants in the United States

Authors

  • Norberto de Almeida Duarte FGV; Grupo de Pesquisa Administração e Planejamento em Saúde
  • Álvaro Escrivão Junior Fundação Getulio Vargas; Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo; Departamento de Gestão Pública
  • Sueli Siqueira Universidade Vale do Rio Doce; Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinar sobre Desenvolvimento Regional

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/sausoc.v22i2.76437

Abstract

Analysis of the current political and economical context in the U.S.A., which involves access to and utilization of health services by immigrants, concerns more than 20 million foreign individuals who live in the country and do not have health insurance. This population corresponds to 43.8% of the 46 million people that do not have private health coverage in the U.S.A.; of these, 10.5 million do not have the legal documentation required to live in the country. In order to explore the needs, access and utilization of American health services by emigrants from Governador Valadares (located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil), fourteen emigrants from this city were selected by means of the snowball technique and were interviewed for this study. Questions concerning interviewees' documentation, place of residence, jobs, needs, access to and use of health services were created. Information collected from emigrants residing in the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut allows us to assert the viability of access and utilization of health services subsidized by the federal and state governments and nongovernmental organizations.

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Published

2013-06-01

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Section

Part I - Dossier

How to Cite

Access to health service by brazilian emigrants in the United States. (2013). Saúde E Sociedade, 22(2), 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1590/sausoc.v22i2.76437